Note: the more dangerous it is, the more likely we'll notice it sooner. Thus, while an impact would have been bad, it probably would not have been too bad.

If by "small truck", let's go on the like high end for that, about 10 meters.

Per Wikipedia one those airbursts in the atmosphere about every 10 years. Yet how many have we heard of? Can you name any? The Chelyabinsk meteor was roughly 20 meters, and hit a populated area, and while it did quite a bit of damage, it was hardly "catastrophic" in a general sense.

Most will airburst over the ocean, about 72% of the surface of the planet. Add Antarctica, which is about 9% IIRC, and that's about 4/5 of them exploding in the skies above places no one is likely to notice or care.

Not much of a threat, but by all means preppers, keep helping the economy while building caches for me to raid just in case.

Sid_6.7:Note: the more dangerous it is, the more likely we'll notice it sooner. Thus, while an impact would have been bad, it probably would not have been too bad.

If by "small truck", let's go on the like high end for that, about 10 meters.

Per Wikipedia one those airbursts in the atmosphere about every 10 years. Yet how many have we heard of? Can you name any? The Chelyabinsk meteor was roughly 20 meters, and hit a populated area, and while it did quite a bit of damage, it was hardly "catastrophic" in a general sense.

Most will airburst over the ocean, about 72% of the surface of the planet. Add Antarctica, which is about 9% IIRC, and that's about 4/5 of them exploding in the skies above places no one is likely to notice or care.

Not much of a threat, but by all means preppers, keep helping the economy while building caches for me to raid just in case.

My "cache" consists of one case of MREs, water, flashlights and a camping stove. Been screwed by hurricanes before.

Sid_6.7:Most will airburst over the ocean, about 72% of the surface of the planet. Add Antarctica, which is about 9% IIRC, and that's about 4/5 of them exploding in the skies above places no one is likely to notice or care.

Further than that, the way that humanity's population is concentrated in the 1/5 we do care about drops it by like another 99.99%, even if it knocks over a town pretty much every part of the world deals with that level of harm on a regular basis (in the US, yearly tornado/hurricane season is probably usually worse).

jehovahs witness protection:Sid_6.7: Note: the more dangerous it is, the more likely we'll notice it sooner. Thus, while an impact would have been bad, it probably would not have been too bad.

If by "small truck", let's go on the like high end for that, about 10 meters.

Per Wikipedia one those airbursts in the atmosphere about every 10 years. Yet how many have we heard of? Can you name any? The Chelyabinsk meteor was roughly 20 meters, and hit a populated area, and while it did quite a bit of damage, it was hardly "catastrophic" in a general sense.

Most will airburst over the ocean, about 72% of the surface of the planet. Add Antarctica, which is about 9% IIRC, and that's about 4/5 of them exploding in the skies above places no one is likely to notice or care.

Not much of a threat, but by all means preppers, keep helping the economy while building caches for me to raid just in case.

My "cache" consists of one case of MREs, water, flashlights and a camping stove. Been screwed by hurricanes before.

An object of that size hit the planet about 65 million years ago in what is now Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, triggering a global climate change that is believed to be responsible for the demise of the dinosaurs

I had to leave town in an emergency situation a few years ago. Grabbed all identifying paperwork and all cash, my cat, my computer tower, and a few day's change of clothes. I had no idea I'd be able to go back three days later to get my stuff.

It's amazing what you discover you can live without when the shiat really hits the fan.

jehovahs witness protection:Sid_6.7: Note: the more dangerous it is, the more likely we'll notice it sooner. Thus, while an impact would have been bad, it probably would not have been too bad.

If by "small truck", let's go on the like high end for that, about 10 meters.

Per Wikipedia one those airbursts in the atmosphere about every 10 years. Yet how many have we heard of? Can you name any? The Chelyabinsk meteor was roughly 20 meters, and hit a populated area, and while it did quite a bit of damage, it was hardly "catastrophic" in a general sense.

Most will airburst over the ocean, about 72% of the surface of the planet. Add Antarctica, which is about 9% IIRC, and that's about 4/5 of them exploding in the skies above places no one is likely to notice or care.

Not much of a threat, but by all means preppers, keep helping the economy while building caches for me to raid just in case.

My "cache" consists of one case of MREs, water, flashlights and a camping stove. Been screwed by hurricanes before.

I feel your pain. We stock up a bit in the spring just in case we get hit. Then theres the guns and ammo, but those are present year round.

My cache has big giant family Bible with brass hinges. When the fundamentalists come out after the apocalypse, I plan to whack them on the head with it and take their stuff. They won't be expecting that.

brantgoose:My cache has big giant family Bible with brass hinges. When the fundamentalists come out after the apocalypse, I plan to whack them on the head with it and take their stuff. They won't be expecting that.

So, do we have an annoying race of pachyderms with terrible aim shooting rocks at us? Or has this been happening all along, and we were just blissfully unaware of the quantity of stuff playing chicken with our gravity well?

Actually you are relatively the same smell. An asteroid within 1/4 the distance to the moon is damn farking close.

There are manmade satellites orbiting the Earth at greater distances. At the approach velocity of one of these asteroids, 65,000 miles takes about 2 seconds to cross.

Relatively speaking, it's as close of an approach as your car makes when passing a roadside gas station. Compared to shooting at a typical bull's-eye target, this'd be on the paper, if not somewhere around the 7-point ring.

The thing that Chelyabinsk taught people was humility. There were a lot of people counting on that size not being able to cause damage. It didn't kill anyone, right? but it couldve, there was broken glass and spines and such. The trick was it came in low and slow. NiFe or not that's potentially somebody's problem. Even with no crater the airburst was humongous and well to hear it from some of the people who think about this, airburst damage was not something generally on folks' radar.

glmorrs1:jehovahs witness protection: Sid_6.7: Note: the more dangerous it is, the more likely we'll notice it sooner. Thus, while an impact would have been bad, it probably would not have been too bad.

If by "small truck", let's go on the like high end for that, about 10 meters.

Per Wikipedia one those airbursts in the atmosphere about every 10 years. Yet how many have we heard of? Can you name any? The Chelyabinsk meteor was roughly 20 meters, and hit a populated area, and while it did quite a bit of damage, it was hardly "catastrophic" in a general sense.

Most will airburst over the ocean, about 72% of the surface of the planet. Add Antarctica, which is about 9% IIRC, and that's about 4/5 of them exploding in the skies above places no one is likely to notice or care.

Not much of a threat, but by all means preppers, keep helping the economy while building caches for me to raid just in case.

My "cache" consists of one case of MREs, water, flashlights and a camping stove. Been screwed by hurricanes before.

Then you're not really a "prepper". You're just prepared.

Also, this is why we shouldn't be cutting funding to NASA.

What is the set number of days you can live without outside help before you go from "prepared" to "prepper"?

puppetmaster745:glmorrs1: jehovahs witness protection: Sid_6.7: Note: the more dangerous it is, the more likely we'll notice it sooner. Thus, while an impact would have been bad, it probably would not have been too bad.

If by "small truck", let's go on the like high end for that, about 10 meters.

Per Wikipedia one those airbursts in the atmosphere about every 10 years. Yet how many have we heard of? Can you name any? The Chelyabinsk meteor was roughly 20 meters, and hit a populated area, and while it did quite a bit of damage, it was hardly "catastrophic" in a general sense.

Most will airburst over the ocean, about 72% of the surface of the planet. Add Antarctica, which is about 9% IIRC, and that's about 4/5 of them exploding in the skies above places no one is likely to notice or care.

Not much of a threat, but by all means preppers, keep helping the economy while building caches for me to raid just in case.

My "cache" consists of one case of MREs, water, flashlights and a camping stove. Been screwed by hurricanes before.

Then you're not really a "prepper". You're just prepared.

Also, this is why we shouldn't be cutting funding to NASA.

What is the set number of days you can live without outside help before you go from "prepared" to "prepper"?